this was so close to being another josei gem by higashimura but the ending crashed it all into the ground. if you ignore the ending however, and pretend like it never happened, it's a really fun read and you'll want to finish it all in one go because you'll want to see how the main characters mess up their lives next.
the main drive of this story is the three 30-year-olds struggling through japanese society's very harsh standards for women and constantly getting told they're old and boring and that they should give up on their dreams. this could have been a better story if
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Aug 2, 2024
NHK ni Youkoso!
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this is a good manga that gets very close to greatness but falls flat on its face near the end where it just becomes kind of a word soup that you're not sure you even understand TOO well- however, it does a good job of representing how insane each character is in its own way, especially in the conversations between satou & misaki and yamazaki's speeches, so i'll give it that (lol).
ignoring the missed potential of this manga, where it could have been used to maybe expand a bit more into the depths of japanese society and worked a bit more with it's characters, ... |
